Posted on 08/25/2009 6:55:41 AM PDT by freed0misntfree
Jesse Ray Beard said he was constantly in trouble, even when he behaved. It took being accused of the racially charged attempted murder of a white classmate in the Deep South to turn his life around.
Beard, 18, now interns at a New York law firm as he prepares for his senior year next month at Canterbury School, a Connecticut prep academy where Beard is highly regarded among peers and teachers.
"I didn't change the way I act. I didn't do nothing different. It was just that I was at Canterbury instead of Jena," he said. "It was like Jena was out to get me -- and not just me, but other people, too."
If not for the controversy surrounding the Jena Six and the palpable racial tension in the Louisiana town, Beard never would have met the attorney who changed the course of Beard's life by removing him from everything he knew.
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I hope he's not a proofreader for the law firm.
Still illiterate
This clown lawyer has obviously never heard of Norman Mailer.Or Jack Abbott.
Can’t correct his grammar, it’s racist. (Yes, seriously, my wife has first hand knowledge of this).
I wonder what happened to the kid Jesse Ray tried to murder?
Think CNN will be running a story on him?
That one got me in a little hot water a few times, but my coworkers and the administration understood the intent: Ghetto patois stops at the front door of the school.
I knew I was not being renewed the next year, so the gloves really came off; I barely skirted legality with a lot of my policies.
The whole Jena Six story is one of those manufactured stories where the issue of “racism” is more important than what actually occurred on the ground.
A rule of thumb to determine if a story is manufactured for the benefit of the political left? Easy. The MSM will run with it uncritically.
Let’s hope the worst thing this guy does is remain an illiterate thug the rest of his life... I’m hoping he doesn’t graduate from thuggery to murder - although the reason he’s not a murderer now is pure accident.
Besides, the real racism of this story is unreported by the MSM and the truth is that a bunch of black kids singled out a white kid for a beating, the only reason was because he was white. The stupid noose story was drummed up by the MSM. Even if the noose story was completely true, it doesn’t justify trying to beat a white kid (unrelated to the noose story) to death.
Not really. They were rewarded for ganging up and beating a kid who was defending another smaller kid the thug 6 were going after.
What was it he said? “I tried to be nice to (all, implied) the white folks, but they still didn’t like me.”
/rolling eyes/
I attended a mixed race school, and I call Bull&%$t.
I think this family is doing liberal-guilt penance.
(Maybe I’m just cynical.)
What color was he?/s
From the Town Talk today.
http://www.thetowntalk.com/article/20090825/SPORTS/308250028/1006
‘Jena Six’ defendant Mychal Bell attending Southern, hoping to play football
Ahem....
Yup, he's gonna be a great lawyer, another John Edwards.
The lawyer who is hailed as this great humanitarian just happens to be on the Board of Directors of the infamous
“Southern Poverty Law Center.” Hope that puts things into greater perspective.
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